I apologize if this site is not for this kind of questions, but this is really puzzling and I have no idea what is happening.
I have 2 minecraft clients, tlauncher and Shiginima launcher. There is a server that I usually play, and I can enter it normally with Shiginima. However if I try to connect with tlauncher it says: Unknown host
and doesn't connect. I can connect to other servers with tlauncher, just not that one. Furthermore I can ping those others that I can connect to. However if I try to ping the one that doesn't work, it says: ping: <host_name_of_server>: No address associated with hostname
.
I have no idea what is happening, and can't find anything about how to solve it or why it happens on the internet..
(I am using linux btw)
dig
orhost
ornslookup
to see what responses your DNS servers are giving for the host/domain names for the two Minecraft servers in question? If I had to guess, I'd say the problematic server is only reachable via IPv6, and I'd guess that tlauncher doesn't support IPv6, but Shiginima does. On many Unix-like systems (possibly including your particular flavor of Linux),ping
doesn't support IPv6 either; you must useping6
to ping hosts via IPv6.ping
andping -6
returnedNo address associated with hostname
. Then I didping -4
and it worked. However when I triedping -4
again, it also returnedNo address associated with hostname
, and doesn't work anymore.. I was able sometimes to enter the server with tlauncher before too.dig
,nslookup
, orhost
, then consider editing your Question to provide the host/domain names of the two servers you're trying to connect to, so that someone else can do the DNS troubleshooting.